First, a few brief sentences about the film that many people call one of the greatest ever made (a simple search on the Internet brings up over 50,000 websites devoted to the movie). Directed by a then unproven Quentin Tarantino, who Roger Ebert calls " The Jerry Lee Lewis of cinema, a pounding performer who doesn't care if he tears up the piano, as long as everybody is rocking" (Chicago Sun-Times 10-94) the movie is a combination of several short-stories into a larger story. Tarantino ignores the concept of time, going forwards and backwards in such a way that the ending and the beginning of the movie are almost the same scene. This n

Jackson's first role after sobering up, ironically enough, was as Wesley Snipe's crackhead brother in the Spike Lee joint Jungle Fever. This role marked a turning point in Samuel Jackson's career. His performance in the film was so well received that at the Cannes Film Festival jury gave him a Supporting Actor award, a category of acting it had never honored before. He was also given the New York Film Critic Award for Best Supporting Actor. Jackson went on to perform in half a dozen more movies (including hits Patriot Games and Jurassic Park) before the role that changed the direction of his career. He appeared as Jules, the Jheri-curled, bible quoting, burger munching hitman in Quentin Tarantino's box office smash Pulp Fiction in 1994. Jackson's brilliant performance netted him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and showed the world he was star material. He went on to co-star with Bruce Willis the following year in another mega-hit, Die Hard with a Vengeance but Jackson's break-out role as a leading actor was the 1996 film A Time to Kill, the story of a man who is put on trial for killing the murderer of his daughter Jack Ruby style- in broad daylight in front of the cops. Jackson is now on the A-list of Hollywood, starring with the likes of Robert DeNiro (in Jackie Brown) and Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone (in Sphere). Last year he banked a reported five million dollars for his role opposite Kevin Spacey in The Negotiator. Current projects include a small role in The Phantom Menace, the first in the series of Star Wars prequels. Supposedly, Jackson is the first person in the movie to utter the famous line "May the Force be with you". The Force has definitely been with Jackson in his rise from the land of Never Was to the Kingdom of Stardom.

onlinear way of shooting, combined with the brilliant acting of Travolta, and Jackson make the film one that can be watched a dozen times, and every time the viewer will take something different away from it.

John Travolta is an actor whose career has seen as many downs as it has seen ups. An awe-inspiring Hollywood star of the late 70's and early 80's, Travolta was the youngest of six children born to tire salesman and former semi-pro football player Salvatore Travolta and high school drama teacher Helen Travolta on February 18, 1954 in Englewood, NJ. Being the baby of the family, Travolta grew up pampered. The Travolta children were encouraged to be creative, and would stage shows in the basement of their home. By age twelve, John knew he wanted to be an actor, having already joined an acting workshop in his hometown. He soon began appearing in local theater and began taking tap lessons from Gene Kelly's brother Fred. Travolta admits he picked up a lot of moves from TV's Soul Train, and he ascribes his love for dance to the fact that his hig

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